General Suhag takes over as army chief

India's Jitu Rai, who won his first Commonwealth Games gold on his debut on Monday, revealed he was confident of winning the yellow metal even before he landed in Glasgow."I have gold and silver in the World Cup and the field here was not strong. So before coming here, I knew that I would win a gold. I am happy that I have won gold in the Commonwealth Games too," said Rai, who is now with the 11 Gorkha Regiment at Mhow."I was never nervous and I took it easy. My planning while in India was to ...

Corruption and shady practices hit a new low Fake encounters to earn medals, connivance with the arms mafia, land scams for illegal money and taking the help of subterfuge for promotions have become the character of Army units deployed in the ...

An Indian Army soldier committed suicide Thursday by shooting himself with his service rifle in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district, army sources said."A jawan of 198 Field Regiment, identified as Satish Chander, shot himself with his service rifle, killing ...

Ravi Rohmetra Late Brig. Mohd. Usman stands as a personification of the secular traditions of the Indian Army. He made supreme sacrifice in the Battle of Jhangar on 3rd July, 1948. Brig. Usman was born on 15th July, 1912 at Bibipur which is a part ...

Previously unseen records on Honourable Artillery Company dating from 1848 to 1922 are being released today HAC dates back to a charter granted by Henry VIII in 1537, with captain generals including Queen Elizabeth II Two HAC infantry battalions and ...

NEW DELHI: The Indian military will continue to retaliate in a befitting manner to all cross-border transgressions by Pakistan, like it did after the soldier-beheading incident last year, but believes there is little chance of a skirmish with China ...

Open Essay Sunanda K Datta-Ray is a journalist and author of several books EMAIL AUTHOR When Indian soldiers defended what God abandoned and risked their life in the faraway fields of the First World War a century ago The ...

Last month, we at The Times of India did an article on the 70th anniversaries of the twin battles of Kohima and Imphal. The response we got from some of our readers was on expected lines: scores of hate mail and numerous ill-informed comments on our ...

It fills every Indian with joy and pride to know that rice-eating, malaria-ridden, barefooted Bengalis have got the better of beef-eating, Herculean, booted John Bull in the peculiarly English sport. Never before was there witnessed such universal ...